And if we're talking about lunatic radicalism and out-of-control petulance, sometimes it's just a flag being burned, kneeling at a football game, a black man living in a white house, or whatever nonesense about impure blood and 'White Europe' gets fascists marching in the streets these days.
All of these things have elicited death threats. Again, the difference is that in our society, the threat of law keeps those people from carrying them out. A few decades ago, the threat of law did not, and lynch mobs were common.
well, 'honor' is socially defined, so the animating context for a killing, so to speak, matters. Some are actual confrontations, but more often an attack will be based on imaginary consequences or implications of someone else's behavior or existence.[1]
Long story short: you're making category errors left and right.
All of these things have elicited death threats. Again, the difference is that in our society, the threat of law keeps those people from carrying them out. A few decades ago, the threat of law did not, and lynch mobs were common.